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IARCHS annual Antique Radio Auction took place on April 29th, 2017 with 91 registered bidders and 8 states represented. Brent Wears auctioneering kept a fast pace through the approximate 600 lots of radios, speakers, parts, tubes etc. Listed below (the photos) are some selected auction highlights with prices realized.

The tentative date for the 2018 auction is April 28th, stay tuned for further information.

A Reminder, sort out those radios that need a new home. Free up that display cabinet for some new acquisitions. Send those pictures in for advance advertising to get the best price for your best radios (advanced advertising ends on April 24th). As of today, the auction is 5 days away. If you are traveling from a distance, get those hotel reservations now. Hope to see you and your radios there.

Shenandoah Super Six Radio Console, located at the Shenandoah IA historical museum, home of Radio Station KMA.

We would like to illuminate our encyclopedia of Iowa radio manufacturers with pictures for all the different radio brands. If you have one of these radios and would like to help, please send us a nice picture to add to this website. Make sure you include the Model name and year of manufacture so we can include it in the description. We will identify you as the picture source on the site as well unless you specify otherwise. If you know of any other Iowa manufacturers that we don’t already have shown please let us know so we can add them.

You can send them to our webmaster, David, using the Club email Radio-Pictures@radio-collector.com.

Iowa Antique Radio Club & Historical Society

If you like old radios, and specially if you are an Iowan, or live in one of our border states (Nebraska, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, South Dakota, or Wisconsin), we would like you to consider joining our Radio Club. We support Iowa manufactured radios with website information, and best of all try to connect collectors from everywhere. Membership is free, and the member experience is priceless. Consider joining today.

Our 2016 Summer newsletter is now online, available for all members to read and download.Time to register your membership online. IARCHS membership is free, check out our membership page for more information.

NEW LOOK for IARCHS:

We are trying to modernize our website so it will work better on mobile devices, plus we want to be able to add more interesting reference material. Please let us know your thoughts and ideas, we want to make the site a real help for Iowa radio historians and collectors.